If ‘location services’(exciting and mandatory even if you have a real GPS chip that could be used without phoning home; thanks a lot, assholes) are enabled, the phone may be doing some listening to get an idea of where it is(and build updated RF maps for HQ). If anything involving ‘beacons’ hasn’t been disabled into a smoking crater, BT may also be going behind your back.
Details aside, though, it all just makes me so tired. ‘Modern’ OSes may be easy to use; but using them is like dealing with a constant, gnawing, sense of motion in your peripheral vision, and the paranoid impression(alas, generally not delusional) that it’s wheels-within-wheels all the way down; and watching figures are flitting around just outside your vision.
Doesn’t solve my phone problems, obviously, but I occasionally have to go back to my OpenBSD-on-relatively-antique-hardware box, just for some time away from the relentless, and not entirely benevolent, automagic. Yes, if I want something to happen, I need to make it so; but at least things stay as you left them; and the ground isn’t shifting under you all the time.
